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A new approach to an influenza life vaccine: haemagglutinin cleavage site mutants generated by reverse genetics.
Berliner und Munchener tierarztliche Wochenschrift - 1 Jan 2000
Stech Jürgen, Klenk Hans-Dieter
Abstract excerpt
A promising approach to reduce the impact of influenza is the use of an attenuated life virus as a vaccine. Using reverse genetics, a mutant of strain A/WSN/33 with a modified cleavage site within its haemagglutinin was generated which depends on proteolytic activation by elastase. Unlike the wild-type requiring trypsin, this mutant is strictly dependent on elastase. Both viruses grow equally well in cell culture...
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